A 35-year-old Brazilian with a criminal record and who has tattoos with Nazi references is the alleged perpetrator of the assassination attempt against the country’s vice president, Cristina Fernández, different Argentine media have reported. The man, arrested after the attack, has been identified as Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel, with residence in Argentina since 1993. He currently lives in the neighborhood of La Paternal, in Buenos Aires, according to government sources reported to the newspaper La Nación. According to the Clarín newspaper, in March 2021 the detainee was charged with carrying an unconventional weapon in La Paternal. It was a large knife that he alleged he was carrying for his personal defense, security sources told the newspaper. Commercial records cited by the newspaper indicate that Sabag Montiel is registered as dedicated to the “non-regular urban and suburban automotive transport service for free passengers”, a category that corresponds to services requested by mobile applications. Social profiles deleted this morning Apparently, he has a Chevrolet Prisma car registered in his name and, according to La Nación, on his social networks it can be seen that he follows profiles linked to radicalized and hate groups, as well as pages of “Masonic orders”, of “satanic communism” or occult sciences. However, his profiles on social networks were taken down at dawn, adds the newspaper. including one on the shoulder that represents a “Schwarze Sonne”, a black sun, a symbol linked to the occult philosophy of Nazism and used by Adolf Hitler’s SS Supporters and opponents of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner face off in protests Sabag Montiel has been arrested after wielding a firearm and pointing it at the face of the former president, who, in a reflexive gesture, crouched in the middle of the escorts who protected her when she arrived. to her home in the Recoleta neighborhood of the capital. “This attack deserves the strongest repudiation of all Argentine society, of all political sectors” Up to 100 projectiles have been seized this Friday in the detainee’s home. Members of the Federal Police found these ammunition during the search of the domicile of the suspect, who lived in the Buenos Aires municipality of San Martín, located in the vicinity of the capital. As soon as the news was known, the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, announced a appearance on national television, in which he declared a holiday this Friday and said that “this attack deserves the strongest rejection of all Argentine society, of all political sectors, because these events affect our democracy”. “�� EXPANSIONThey arrest a man who tried to shoot Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchnerhttps://t.co/4epxPTfTlq“ — RTVE Noticias (@rtvenoticias) September 2, 2022 Fernández said that the vice president “remains alive because, for a reason not yet technically confirmed, the weapon that had five bullets did not fire despite having been triggered”. for her 12 years in prison for an accusation of corruption, she settled next to the former president’s home.